Novelty Quotes & Sayings

Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment. - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. - Will Rogers

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. - Henry David Thoreau

We are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. 'How he's grown!' we exclaim, 'How time flies!' as though the universal form of our experience were again and again a novelty. It is as strange as if a fish were repeatedly surprised at the wetness of water. And that would be strange indeed; unless of course the fish were destined to become, one day, a land animal. (Reflections on the Psalms) - C. S. Lewis